A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. |
A strange, horrible business, but I suppose good enough for Shakespeare's day. |
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. |
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. |
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can. |
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. |
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. |
Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others; don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . . |
Everybody grows but me. |
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. |
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. |
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. |
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting. |
His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy! |
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails. |